Word: pierrepoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swinging through Europe, on a hangman's holiday, which will take him to Vienna, Graz, northern Italy and (reportedly) to Nürnberg in time to officiate should Nazi leaders be hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help...
...distinguish him from his uncle, Old Thomas Pierrepoint, executioner emeritus...
...only U.S. Army prison in England that was equipped for executions, I had occasion to meet Pierrepoint several times on his professional visits there...
...greatly interested in the piece about Pierrepoint, the British hangman [TIME, March...
...forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself when he became too old to enjoy life, and that he [Pierrepoint] would some day do the same himself...